The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-05 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, (From the Times' Special Correspondent) RICHMOND, Oct e 8. Upon the Ist inst. one of those casualties which have attracted to the port of Wilmington, the sea gate of the Confederacy, a degree of notice never accorded to this insignificant town during all its previous years of existence, startled this community almost as much as the explosion of Grant's harm• less mine at Petersburg two months before. At 3in the morning of the lsta blockade running steamer, named the Condor, the property of Mr Alex. Collie, of London, while attempting to enter the mouth of the Cape Fear River, had the misfortune, thanks to her blundering pilot, to run aground on the breakers, within 200 or 300 yards of the Confederate guns in Fort Fisher. The Condor was a new Vireo funnelled steamer, superbly adapted for her trade, with great carrying capacity, drawing only seven feet of water, and swift as a sea swallow. She was approaching Wilmington on her first inward trip, and brought out from Greenock, whence she sailed in August last, several English and Confederate passengers, and among them a lady named Mrs Greenhow, well known on this continent as having, at the commence- rnent of the war, conducted a spirited correspon dence with Mr Seward at WasLington, and as hay- ing been imprisoned by that autocratic attorney. Mrs Greenhow had passed many months in England previous to sailing in the Condor, and was returning to share the increasing perils of her own country. After the Condor took the ground a Yankee vessel was seen approaching through the gloom, with a view to shelling or boarding the stranger. Mrs Greenhow, remembering her former imprisonment in Washington, and apprehensive of its repetition, insisted, against the advice of the captain, on having a boat lowered, and upon trusting herself to the ten• der mercies of the waves rather than to those of the Yankees. Into this Loat she carried with her the mail bags, and Prof. Holcombe, whom the Condor had picked up at Halifax, and whose name was last summer brought before the public in connexion with Mr Greeley's abortive negotiations with a view to peace, which were entered into at Niagara Falls. To the pilot, who had just ran the Condor aground, was committed the delicate task of steering Mrs Greenhow's boat, which was lowered into a raging surf. Directly the boat left the leeside of the vessel she was caught, broadside on, by a huge breaker, and overturned. All the male passengers succeeded in clambering up and clutching the keel of the cap sized boat, but in the darkness and amid the deaf- ening thunder of the breakers nothing was seen or heard of poor Mrs Greenhow. Her body *as sub. sequently washed ashore near Fort Fisher, and clese beside it a heavy leather reticlue, containing 2,000 dols in gold, which was believed to have been slung round her neck when the boat was upset. It is a strange proof of the strength of that boisterous sea that such a weighty article as this reticule should not have sunk, but should have been tossed up on the beach like a bit of seaweed. Upon the afternoon of the 2d Mrs Greenhow's body was committed to the grave at Wilmington, according to th e r it es of the Roman Catholic Church. A general feeling o gloom in connexion with the thought of the high hcpes with which Mrs Greenhow returned to her native lend, and of her having been tossed, a life less corpse, upon its inhospitable strand, has per vaded this community, which at this sad moment remembers only how zsalous and enthusiastic was her devotion to the Confederacy. I cannot forbear touching upon another incident connected with the port at Wilmington. Upon the night preceding the wreck of the Condor, another English vessel, named the Night Hawk, ran ashore within 20 yards of the spot where the Condor was subsequently stranded. The Yankees. with an an dacity which seems (so far as the blockading squad• ron off Wilmington is concerned) to be on the ins crease, sent a boat to board and fire the Night Hawk, although she lay within canister range of Fort Fisher. The crew of the Yankee boat could scarcely have exceeded 25 or 30 men ; there must have been 60 persons on board the Night Hewk,when she tan aground. Of these, some 20 escaped to land in one of the boats. Immediately that the Yankees boerded the unresistiog commercial vessel, which lay wholly at their mercy, they set to work, crying, "No quarter," slashing upon all sides with their cutlasses, and firing promiscuously with their re volvers. The two engineers were instantly but. chered, the chief engineer's head having been bisected by the stroke of a cutlass, and several other persons are said to have been wounded by pistol shots. The vessel was fired at the stem and stern, and inasmuch as Fort Fisher gave some signs of life by throwing up a rocket, and inasmuch as there was a rumour of gunpowder on board the doomed vessel, the Yankees, as cowardly where there seemed to be danger as they had been ruf fianly where thero was no resistance, took to their boat, leAving some half dozen hapless victims on board the blazing vessel, to be burnt, blown up, or drowned, as the case might be. Fortunately the flames, after burning a day and a half, were distin guished, chiefly by the agency of the captain and crew of the Falcon (another of Mr Collie's vesselsj, and the boilers and machinery of the Nights Hawk were uninjured. She will probably, 'within a few days or weeks, issue forth from Wilmington with her full cargo of cotton on board. But my object in mentioning this incident is to ask your readers whether they are able to discern any difference be• tween the conduct of the Yankee boat crew and that of the inhuman fiends who man the piratical craft which issue from the island of Formosa and assail becalmed and defenceless commercial vessels in the Chinese seas. I was under the impression that in. ternationallaw prescribes that the penalty of running the blockade is not that those engaged in this trade should be butchered unresistingly, bat that their vesaels,if captured, should be forfeited to the captors. But it seems that the Federals, many of whom have asserted in my hearing that the civilisation of New York and Boston is equal, if not superior, to that of Pgais and London, think there is no disgrace in butchering unarmed and unresisting men. There is little hope that a Government which has shown such forbearance—it may be wise forbearance, al though it is hard to witness the inhumanities of this war, and to think so—es oars will be aroused even to the utterance of a fable remonstrance by such inci dents as this; but it is worthy the consideration of those English captains who engage in the blockade running trade whether it would not be wise to arm their crews with muskets and cutlasses, solely with a view to preventing their vessels being boarded, if aground, by a handful of Yankees, who, if they find an unarmed crew on board, are likely to emulate the atrocities of the Coinese buccaneers, and to slash and slay because there is no more danger from their victims than Nero anticipated from the flies which • he transfieed. I em happy to report a far more confilent feeling in Richmond than existed at the date of my last letter. It cannot be denied that when upon the 29. h of September it was discovered in Richmond that Grant was advancing upon the city with two army corps (the 10th and 18th), and that Lee had only a handful of troops to resist the Federals, a feeling closely akin to panic possessed this com munity. It is the only instance of panic which, in some experience in Richmond, I can recollect. But the city slowly and sternly recovered itself, and it as nothing less than justice to an unpopular man to say that no one in Richmond displayed such firmness and presence of mind, and developed such resources at the moment of the greatest menace ' as Gen. Bragg. la many of my p rev i ous l etters I have pointed out to your readers the true disadvantage s of Lee's position as compared with Grant's. As a general illustration it may be said that Lee is on the arc, Grant on the sherd, of a circle ; but as this expression does not exactly define the position of the two armies, whose lines (extending each of them over a length of 3) miles) do not pursue any uni form course or inclination, I will endeavour, at the risk of repeating what I have described many tim es before, to make my meaning clearer. Your readers will understand that, in such an attitude as is occu pied by the armies of Lee and Grant, the army which takes the initiative and acts on the aggres sive has an immense advantage. Lee is like a skil ful one-armed prize fighter, fighting a big bully with two erms, stronger, taller, more active, and 7reener-sighted than himself. The most tempting an a premising cpporturities offer themselves to him every day, He cannot afford to hazard even 20 livcs in a tentative operation. The fact of his great nume• rical inferiority to his enemy, and that he is ethered down and forced to keep always a large portion of his army before Petersburg, are disadvantages equivalent to the loss of an arm b j a prizefighter. Grant, on the other hand, has, in the eyes of those who rightly survey the ground, such advantages as make it astonishing that, in the four months be tween the 12th June, when he crossed the James River, and the present time, he should have made so little use of them. In his centre lies the James River, with its dozens of Yankee gunboats and monitors, covering the Federal base of operations, and making it even unapproachable by General Lee, ' It is doubtless with a view to getting still more out of these monitors that General Butler is attempt ing to cut a canal through Dutch Gap, into which he hopes to tempt the James River. It is not thought here, I may say par parenthese , that any advantage will result to Butler's comrades from this canal, even if, contrary to Federal experience at Vicksburg, it proves a success. By means of the pontoon bridges which connect Bermuda Hundred with Deep Bot tom, Grant can throw any number of men by night or day to the north or south of the James. It is almost impossible for Lee to know if Grant's de monstrations, whether they threaten Richmond on the extreme Federal right, or the South side rail road on the extreme Federal left, are feints or realities. On the other hand, from the configure. tion of the ground, it is almost impossible for Lee to cut Grant's extended lines in any vital place. The most tempting place to assail those lines would be somewhere not far from the spot where Grant's mine was sprung. Bat the shape of the ground and the position of the forest is such that the lines can only be attacked at two or three confined spots, and here naturally Grant has defended himself with triple tiers of fortifications, and keeps always strong bodies of men in position. But the greatest of all advantages is the following :—From the 4th of May up to the present hour Lee's army has been con tinuously in the trenches, either actually under fire or at any rate not knowing at what moment it might not be attacked by a savage and multitudinous foe. The Confederates have been fighting or on the rack without intermission for more than five months. On the other hand s the Federal General, who knew from the beginning that Lee was, through the paucity of his numbers, restricted to acting on the defensive, had it in his power at any moment to give four-fifths of his army an entire rest. There was nothing to prevent Grant's saying on August 1, " I shall want great efforts from you on the 20th of this month ; rest and recruit yourselves until that day." On the contrary, for 160 days Lee's troops have known no rest, either by night or day. We all re. member how the work in the trenches told upon our officers and privates in the Crimea ; it cannot be wondered that a far more uninterrupted pressure for more than five months should have told fear. fully upon the poor Confederates, exposed to one of the fiercest summers ever known in Virginia, scan tily fed upon meat—mostly salt meat—and bread, without vegetables, with only occasional coffee, with no other stimulant, and threatened ceaselessly by overwhelming numbers, who have at their command all that a lavish profusion of expenditure and the scientific experience of the whole civilised world can contribute. I cannot be blind to the fact, as I meet officers and privates from Gen. Lee's army, that they are half warn cut, and that, though the spirit is the same as eve 2„ they urgently need rest. lam in hopes that during the c)miug winter this rest will not be denied to them, as Lee's army becomes stronger ; but be that as it may, I am convinced, when the tine history of the Confederate campaign of 1864 in Virginia is written, it will record a struggle unsurpassed in heroism and in the patience and self.denying endurance of the troops gee° the time when blood was first spilt upon the earth, and man first lifted his hand in anger against his bro. ther. There is one plan by which, at the price of the bricks and mortar of Petersburg, General Lee might curtail the existing prolongation of his lines, might assume a much stronger defensive position, and considerably increase the difficulties of his oppo nent. That this plan will be adopted if occasion requires is by no means improbable, but so long as Gen. Lie feels himself strong enough to hold and protect Petersburg es well as Richmond he will cone tinue to•elinee to both. If he gave up the town of Petersburg, and fell back upon the western and ,• higher bank of the Appomattox, holding the heights of Pccahontas, which girdle Petersburg on the west 4nd north, his strength for defence would be much greater; but he would have in some measure to give the little city np to its assailants, much in the same fashion as Fredericksburg was given up to the Federals while the Confederates held Marye's Heights. It has often been argued by wise military heads that this would be a lathe: 7 .oll3 step, but expe. rienee has shown to what misery the inhabitants of towns surrendered to the enemy are reduced, and to this misery Gen. Lee will not consent that Peters burg shallbe exposed, if he can prevent it. My own impression is that the success or failure which may follow Hood's daring move in Georgia (of which I spoke in my last letter) will govern the operations of Grant against Richmond. The reciprocity and mutuality which have always existed between the various armies of the Federals on the one band and of the Confederates on the other, in the East and West, were never more apparent than at this me. men% If the Confederates maintain their present attitude before Richmond, and continuo to hold their enemy back until, as is here anticipated, a great disaster has overtaken Sherman in the West, I do not scruple to say that, in my opinion, Richmond will laugh its assailants to scorn. If, on the other hand, Sherman is able to extricate himself from his present critical position, by either beating or out witting Hood, there will be reason for apprehension about Richmond during the coming winter the like of which has never existed before, Meantime, there is every reason to think that Grant, electioneering and "pipe-laying" for Mr Lin coln after a fashion never dreamt of, will afford us lively times between this date and the end of the pre sent month. Ihere is, in my belief, little reason to apprehend that Richmond is threatened with immi nent and immediate danger. The operations of General Grant are likely to be of the same guarded and stealthy character as the approach of the Red Indian when about to attack the camp of a Western squatter. It is evident that the main strength of the Federal forces is concentrated at the two ends of the Federal lines, or, in other words, at the salient in the immediate neighbourhood of Chaffin's Bluff, which was lately taken by the Federals, and which is called Fort Harrison ;*and, secondly, at a point close to the Weldon Railroad, which is called Fort M‘Rae. Your readers are aware that three sepa rate Efforts (none of them considerable efforts) have been made by General Lee to retake Fort Harrison, but hitherto without success. It cannot be denied that the proximity of Fort Harrison to Cheffin's Bluff (which is to the northern bank of the James River what Drewry's Bluff or Fort Darling is to the southern bank) is an inconvenience to General Lee, which is likely to be increased when General Grant has completed the bombproofs and casements which, in spite of incessant Confederate shelling, he is said to be there erecting. But lam assured that Gen. Lee has in contemplation, or perhaps in course of execution, a plan of which I can at present say no more than that it will considerably interfere with the probably programme of Grant. On the whole, it is impossible not to take a more cheerful view of the Confederate prospects in Vir■ ginia than it was proper to entertain at the close of the last month. At this moment lam ex cluding from my mind all thought of the operations in Georgia, which, with or without reason, are regarded as likely to exercise great influence upon tt'e fortunes of Grant. But it must not be forgotten that all the apprehensions lately enter tained about the operations of the Federals through out Virginia centre at this instant in the army of General Grant. It is evident that the valley cam paign of General Sheridan is a total failure ; and General Burbridge, advancing against the Coeede rate saltworke ip South-Western Virginia, has been utterly defeated by General Echols. Grant is the supreme hope of the Federate ; with the discern& ture of Grant, whether brought about by an unsuc cessful attack of his own or by the hopelessness which would seize his army if Sherman were routed in Georgia, falls the stately fabric of Northern rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1864 hopes and expectations. No one can doubt that if Sherman is routed in Georgia, and Grant held im potently at bay until Christmas in Virginia, it will be impossible for Mr Stanton and his myrmidons to get together such an.army as will be adequate to the commencement of another spring campaign in 1865. The darkest hour of the night is proverbially that which immediately precedes the dawn; and it is not, in my judgment, unreasonable to expect that this hour of gloom through which the Confederates are now passing—the darkest and profoundest which I have ever witnessed—is the herald of a day about to arise with healing on its wings, which will re store to this distracted and sorely troubled the blessings, once so lightly esteemed, of tranquillity and peace. OCTOBER 12. I❑ many previous letters I have remarked that a knowledge of the histoire inedde of the Western Confederate Army during the last three years is . .. .. _ _ indispensable to a right understanding of Western events, and will constitute a key without the pos session of 1 5 hich no future historian need attempt the task of a chronicler. It would require more space and time than I can at this moment command to throw fall light upon this subject ; b u t i n con . _ nectiun therewith I may remark that the true great ness and goodness of General LCC'd character is in no way made more apparent than by stating the fact that the army over which he has so long presided has, comparatively speaking, no secret and mysteri ous history of its own, whereas the Western army reveals a tissue of intrigues, quarrels, self-seekings, and recriminations which are enough to sicken the heart of any patriotic man. It is my belief (as I have often said before) that the Confederate army of the West was originally composed of vastly inferior material to that which constituted the Confederate army of the East. Moreover, in regard to the Federal armies precisely the reverse of this state- ment is the truth, The best Confederate army (that of Virginia) was opposed to the worst Federal army (the Grand Army of the Potomac) ; the best troops, _ . on the other hand, that the Federals have sent into the field wore opposed to the Confederate army, which has successively obeyed Sidney Johnson, - - - Beauregard, Bragg, Johnston, and Hood, and which falling from its originally low standard, seems to have deteriorated step by step as it was tossed sue. cessively from one commander to another. It has been the fashion, since the fall of Atlanta and the disasters which have attached to this luck- less army under the command of Hood, to assert that, if the command had been left undisturbed in Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's hands no such disasters would have occurred. It is not denied by the parti• sansof Gen.johnston that Atlanta would have fallen in any case, but it is asserted that, after its fall, Gen, Johnston would have effected marvels. I confess that I feel myself wholly unable to take this view of the case. If Johnston had been left in command, Atlanta would certainly have fallen i❑ July instead of falling as it did oh Sept. 2. It is difficult to appre ciate the value and importance of the six weeks thus gained by Hood. Those six weeks threw Sherman's success so far back into the year that no fresh Western campaign on a grand ecal© was possible in 1861 for the Yankees. It has been said that it was a singular and unprecedented fact that, in spite of Johnson's incessant retreats, his army continued to place the utmost faith in him, and that it was never:demoralized. I answer that his army was de- moralized, and that becanas it was demoraFzcd i took pleasure in and approved th© retrograde tactics of General Johnston. Ic was easy for it, after it found that Hood intended to expose it to nothing but hard knock?, and that a large party in the country resented the removal of Johnston, to ex caim, "We will not fight under this man; give us back Johnston." It is my belief that in all his- tory few commanders have ever assumed the re- sponsibility of leading an army under more unfa vourable and discour32ing circumstances than those which surrounded Hood when pat in command i❑ July last. His army had had its morale insensibly sapped by the caution and frigidity of his prede cessor. It was the general cry of grumblers, of all who lovo to find fault, of all who have a grudge against President Davis, that Johnston was one of the greatest generals of all time, that his'army loved and trusted him, and that to separate such a general from such an army could result in nothing but disaster to it and to the ccuatry. There is nothing wonderful in the fact that an army whose spirit and moralu were low should love a general iike Johnston, who nil little cis 'i fall back, and whose high reputation for personal courage and for ability shielth!d both himself and his army from any imputations. But I think there aro at this moment few well wishers to the Confederacy who do not believe (whatever they may have thought a month ago) that the change from John ston to hood under Beauregard (which is at pre sent the txact peai►ian of tffairs) is a charge for theabetter. It was scarcaly to be expected that . the dissatis faction of the general public, and of a large For. tion of the newspaper press, sho'itd not find an echo in the breasts of some of Hood's subordinate gale- rale. Hood himself was young, and far inferior iz military rank to some of those over whose heads he was put. He was bereft of his right leg and cf portion of the bone of his left arm, and was, in the estimation of some, pro tanto inferior to a sound man. Consequently, there have since he took the command been bickerings and heartburnings among officers in high places, which have added grievously to the demoralisation of the army. It is not necese sary to say more now on this staject than that in my belief Atlanta would never have fallen had every man in Hood's army, officer and private, striven to do his whole duty strenuously. It is impossible, however, now to regret that Atlanta should have fallen. The indications are that its fall is going to be one of the greatest blessings to the Confederates that has occurred since the commencement of the war, as I will subsequently explain. But in order to reap these benefits, which seem now to bo like frait ripe for the plucking, it is necessary that there should be no such tack of spirit and earnestness as pervaded portions of Hood's army at the commence ment of September, and it is my hope that a new spirit has now possessed it, for the following reasons. It must be known to your readers before the are rival of this letter that President Davis had just re turned to Richmond, after a visit to Georgia; The result of his visit is that General Beauregard is put in command of the whole of the South-west of the Confederacy on this side of the Mississippi, just as General Lee is in command of Virginia and North Carolina. It must be owned that the arduous task assigned to General Beauregad is " periculosve plenum opus alt ae ;" but my belief is that of all men in the Confederacy, he is, after General Lee, the fittest for the place. It is no secret that the con tact into which Beauregard has laiely been thrown with Lee has contributed to elevate him greatly in Lee's estimation. Perhaps the brigla.test attribute of Beanregard's military genius is that his views of campaigns, of strategy, and of large systems of de fence aro wide, far reaching, and comprehensive. He has benefited by this war in experience and practical knowledge as much as any distinguished officer who has been engaged in it, and there is in him no die. position to intrigue, to work secretly and indirectly by inspiration of newspapers, or to sin against any of the axioms prescribed by the code for the guid ance of great soldiers in all ages. Moreover, there attaches to Beauregard, as there attached to Stone wall Jackson, a kind of electric popularity, whieh is of wonderful value to a general who commands mer curial and undisciplined soldiers I:ke these Confe derates. His name will be to Hood's army a tower of strength ; the advantage of consulting with him on all strategic Al questions will be greatly prized by Hood; and I anticipate from the union of Beau regard and Hood as many advantages as are popu larly attributed in the North to the union of Grant and Meade. But the visit of Mr Davie to Georgia has elevated the morale of Hood's army in other ways. Ho has assigned to Gen. Hardee (an able and admirable soldier, but indisposed to act under Hood, to whom, if Hardee had accepted the command of the Western army offered to him last autumn, he might now have been giving orders) a separate command. He has inspirited and invigorated the entire population of Georgia, indisposed them to give heed to the factions of which, since the fiat days of the Confederacy, the soil of Georgia has been the scene, and set them heartily to the prosecution of the only important business which is now bofore them—that is to say, of the war. But, above all things, he has raised the spirit of Hood's army; he has taught it to entertain misgivings as to the policy of always falling back, and has reconciled it to its present manly and enterprising commander. Nor is the re ward which this hitherto unsuccessful army is likely ;0 reap far distant or long deferred. I have the best authority for saying that the boldest move which has as yet been attempted in this war—the move by which Hood threw his army from the south to the north of Atlanta, and fixed his claws upon the line of Sherman's communications—is of hood's sole origination. It remains to be seen whether, in the event of Sherman's adopting almost the only course which seems open to him—l mean in the event of his attacking Hood behind his intrenchments—the much abused Confederate army of the West will strike a blow whin►h, if successful, will do more to end the war than dozens of such battles as were fought in 1861 and 1862. It is my belief that Hood's army, inspirited by the manifest sagacity which is disclosed in the movewhichit has just made, will prove itself worthy of its vigorous young com mander, and will gain for itself and for him a repu tation which will eclipse the comparative failures of three and a half years. If ever there was a war in which laudace, l'audace, toujours l'audace should be the motto of Southern generals, it is the war in which we are here engaged. The two most success- ful generals of this war, Stonewall Jackson and Lee, are the rashest; and the present promising and dar ing move of Hood will prove (unless I am mistaken) before October has closed that it is only by rashness that telling and staggering blows can be dealt. The details of the movement by which Hood de scribed wellnigh three-fourths of a circle, and swung his army round Sherman, are described to me as having been very Ekilfully executed. Leaving the railroad which runs south between Atlanta and Macon, Hood seized possession of the railroad which, running in a south■westerly direction, con. netts Atlanta with Montgomery, as though he wished to bar Sherman's passage to the latter city. After fixing himself on this line he made great show of vigorously intrenching himself, and secretly threw his pontoons across the Chattahoochie River, the course of which lays a little distant from his left. He was not disturbed by any reconnaissance or scouting party of Sherman's. It may be that here after Sherman will disclose as much strategic abi• lity as he has heretofore displayed pertinacity while advancing on Atlanta ; but it 'rust be confessed that the appearances are that he showed blind and arrogant depreciation of his enemy and culpable inactivity about watching that enemy after the Fe- derals had once got possession of Atlanta. It seems to me hardly conceivable that succour to Sherman can come from the North before his supplies are so reduced as to compel him to issue forth from his stronghold of Atlanta. The most vigorous acd for midable of all the Confederate cavalry chiefs— General Forrest—has long been "on the rampage" along the skirts of Tennessee, Northern Alabama, and Northern Mississippi. Oar Lat accounts re. present Forrest as having retired before a very large force of Federals into Northern Mississippi, and it is reasonable to anticipate that if his pursuers turn' southwards towards Hood's rear Forrest will hang on their ekirts and harass and delay their march by every means in his power. The vast distances of the South over which Sherman has triumphed in his advance on Atlanta are likely to emercisa the same unfavourable ilifiLleCC3 upon him in his present situ-. ation as they have never failed to exercise upon. al other Fceleral commaLders who have thrust them, selves deep into the bowels of their enemy's bound% less and desolate country. The actual lino held by the army of Hood, whose head=quarters are at Dallas, commences a few miles ❑orth of the Marietta, where his left rests on the railroad, with his centre at Dallas, and his right reaching down towards Alc.bima, whance he draws his main supplies. By his adventurous move he has transferred the scene of military operations once more into that rugged and mountainous country from which, in the opinion of selaiers, Johnston never should have allowed himself to be driven into ths plain around Atlanta. Never was there _appa rently such an instance es regards warlike opera. tiou , 3, of the truth of Juvenai's lines Evertere domes totas optrontlus ipsis Di faciles. We have ali read with what shouts and acclama. tions,with what pealing of bells and what discharges of cannon, Sherman's " great Union victory'' and the " capture of Atlanta" were celebrated in the Northern States—yet there is reason to believe that the C.)nfederates are justifiel . in thithirg that out of this capture of Atlanta will arise for their enemies such discomfiture as has not been hitherto parallelled in the course of this war. The disparity between the armies of Sherman and Hood is, if I am rightly informed, by no means considerable. From this passage of the war the Federals will learn what they have been told a thousand times by all dispassioi;ato spectators—that to take towns in the interior of vast hostile territories like these South ern States is one thing, to hold them is another. I have reason for thinking there is a gross ore aggeration about the numbers which are ordinarily assigned as estimates of Grant's strength—nor can the is composed compare with the material materialrwhich of that his which advanced on Richmond under M'Clellan, or even of that army which fought the battles of May last. There never r ia m y y was a moment when more deserters came into the Confederate lines, and it is obser ve d t h at t h ese d e' serters are not as of yore chiefly Irishmen, English.. men, or Germans, but they number among them many Northerners of American birth. Two nights ago 10 deserters escaped from Grant's meshes and sarrendered themselves to Lee, of whom upwards of 90 were men born upon this continent. Strenuous efforts are bring made to swell L ou ' a num b ers by calling into the ranks detailed men, by sulAtituting 1 and by getting into the service that large body of men who have got negroes for white teamsters, " State exemptions" and have hitherto escaped con scription. It is estimated that in the two States of Virginia and North Carolina there are not less than 30,000 men between the ages of 18 and 45 who have got exemptions from Governor Smith or Governor Vance. But the most signific ant fact, as ind i cat i ng that this struggle of the South for indepen d ence will never be abandoned for years to come, is that everywhere—on the streets, i n the railroad cars, and among private circles—th e propr i ety o f arm i ng and putting the negro into th e ranks i s eager l y discussed. There has al ways i n the South been a sentimental antipathy to setting children to do the work of men, or, in other words, to seeking from a feeble, unwarlike, and submissive race the ex.bibia tion of passions and the ex erc i se o f qu alities which have been always regarded as the attr ib utes o f a dominant and sup e ri or race. But it rema i ns if ems sion demands for the South to exhibit how the negro when placed side by side with the master whom he has know n and loved s i nce t h e i n f ancy o f both will fight for th e maintenance of slavery against his brethren who seek to compass its forcible abolition. The words recently employed by Mr Lincoln to the afoot that ;ho had 200,000 negroes under arms, and that ho should like to see how any Northern man who proposed to employ only white soldiers would carry on this war, have sunk deep into many a Southern heart. It will be a strange corollary to this war if the campaign of ' 1865 finds 20,000 armed negroes from the North trying conclusions with 20,000 armed negroes from the South, and if the ocean of blood which has already been spilt i s d ar k ene d by a fresh current to be added to itlnext y ear , fl ow i ng from theveins,of that hapless race which seems likely to be involved in a conflict whose passions it cannot sharp and whose prizas it cannot appreciate. [ADVERTISEMENT ]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Old Sores, Wounds, and Ulcers,—The readiness with which Holloway's unguent removes all obstructions in the circulation of the vessels and lymphatics explains their ir resistible influence in healing old sores, bad wounds, and indolent ulcers. To insure the desired effect, the skin sur rounding the diseased part should ha fomented, dried, and immediately well rubbed with the ointment. This will give purity to the foul blood and strength to the weakened nerves, the only conditions necessary for the cure of all those hideous ulcerations which render life almost intoler able. No sooner is this ointment's protective power exerted than the destructive process ceases and the constructive business begins —new healthy growths appear to nil up the lately painful excavated pit. Alleged Extensive Frauds. A well-dressed man, named William Miller, described as of Gray's-lodge, Grays, Essex, was yesterday placed at the bar of the Mansion-house, before Mr Alderman Stone, who was sitting for the Lord Mayor, charged with having em bezzled various sums of money, amounting to over £5OO, received by him on account of his employer, Mr Daniel D, Dymes, merchant, 9, Mincing-lane. Mr Humphreys, of the firm of Humphreys and Morgan, appeared to prosecute; and Mr Gole appeared on the part of the prisoner. Mr Humphreys gave a brief outline of the facts of the case, from which it appeared that the prisoner was manag ing clerk to the prosecutor, and in that capacity had the general control of the business, and had authority to sign for prosecutor cheques and bills for business purposes. Mr Dymes left home in June last in consequence of ill-health, leaving the management of the business in the hands of the prisoner. Mr Dymes returned to business on the 4th Octo ber last, and saw the prisoner there on that day. Ho went again on the sth, expecting to find the prisoner there, but he did not make his appearance, and it appeared that ho had absconded, and wrote a letter to Mr Dymes, in which he said that in consequence of circumstances which had oc curred in his absence he could not return to business. The prisoner went to America, and Mr Dymes a day or two back received information that he was returning, and communi cated with the police, and the prisoner was apprehended by Detective-sergeant Huggett, on Thursday, as he was leav ing the ship. It appeared that the prisoner drew a bill on his brother in Madras, which he signed for prosecutor in Mr Dymes' name, for 5,000 rupees. This bill was sold to the Chartered Bank of India, and realised £486, which was paid by a cheque, and was placed to the debt of Mr Dymes at the Union Bank. The cheque was crossed, which Mr Humphreys observed was probably the reason of its being paid in, for it appeared that on the 3rd October the prisoner directed one of the clerks to fill up a cheque for exactly the same amount, to which he signed Mr Dymes's name by procuration. This cheque was cashed by one of the clerks, who handed the money to the prisoner, who ab sconded with that sum. Independent of that, since MrDymes had been back to business he had had claims made upon him to the extent of between £30,000 and £40,000, of which he knew nothing whatever, and Mr Humphreys said Mr Dymes really at the moment he was speaking did not know in what position he stood—whether he was a sound man or not. Not only had the prisoner entered into transactions to the amount he had mentioned without the knowledge of Mr Dymes, but it appeared from inquiries which had been made that he had entered into speculations on his own account to the amount of about £lB,OOO, and hod drawn cheques on Mr Dymes's private account to pay the deposits to the different brokers. The prisoner had left no account whatever or any docu ments at the office by which Mr Dymes could have been made acquainted with his transactions. Mr Dymes was called, and said prisoner was in his service as managing clerk, and had authority to sign cheques and bills for all purposes of trade. He had a salary of £6OO a year, and had been in his service about three years and a half. In consequence of ill-health he went away in June or the beginning of July last, leaving the prisoner to manage his business, and returned permanently to business on the 4th . _ October last. He had been to the cffioe, however, several times between those dates. The prisoner had the general control of his business, subject to his communicating with him from time to time and advising him in respect of any new transactions which might be entered into, He constantly received communications from the prisoner upon the subject of his business. The prisoner had no authority to draw money from his bankers and appropriate it to his own use. The prisoner had authority to draw his own salary. The prisoner had no authority to draw the cheque produced or to appropriate the money he received to his own use. The cheque was dated October 3, and drawn by the prisoner by procuration fur Mr Dymes for £486 19s 7d on -the Union Bank of London. When he returned to business on Oct. 4 he commenced going through his affairs with the prisoner, and on the 5,h when he went he found the prisoner was absent. He did not know at the time nor had he any rea son to believe that the prisoner would not be there ; and he had never seen anything of him from that time until he saw him in custody. On Oct. she received a letter from him, which he had not then with him. Since his return to business claims had been made upon him by various brokers to the amount of between -LlO,OOO and £lO,OOO, the greater part of which were quite without his knowledge, and took him very much by surprise. Some of the transactions were known to him and were entered in the books, but they were by far the lesser part, and would be covered by £lO,OOO or £12,000. There was no record in the office or dockets by which he could trace one of the transactions. The prisoner had no authority in transactions of his own to draw upon witness's account in respect of these transactions. Early in the week a telegram was sent to his office addressed to Mrs Miller, by which he learnt that the prisoner was re turning to England, and he accordingly communicated with the police with a view to having h7m apprehended. Mr Gole, on being asked whether he wished to put any questions to the witness, said he should like to know what charge he was called upon to answer, whether Mr Hum phreys was going simply upon the £5OO bill or upon the whole of the transactions he had alluded to in his opening: Mr Humphreys said he was not in a condition to proceed with any charge other than the £5OO at present. On being cross-examined Mr Dymes said he did on his return find at his office a share in a coffee plantation. The amount paid up was , £6OO, but be believed the value was merely nominal at present. Ho did not know whether the prisoner had transferred it to him, He believed the transfer was blank. It could only have been left there by the pri. Boner. He himself had paid the £6OO fur the prierner. He had not had cry communication from the prisoner. fled told him ho had transferred the share to him as a set off against the £5OO. There were also E 0 shares in the Essex Water Company, and he believed the amount paid up was £BO. He had not heard from any one what the prisoner left shares at his office for. He considered them to go in reduc tion of the very large debt account which appeared against the prisoner. On being re-examined, witness said he believed the £lBO had not been appropriated to his business. George B. Sandmann said he was bookkeeper and cashier in the office of Mr Dymes. On the 3d October he received directions from the prisoner to fill up the check produced for £lB6. The signatures "D. D, Dymes" and "W. Miller" were in the prisoner's handwriting. The money had not, as far as he knew, been used in Mr Dymes's business. At the time the cheque was drawn the prisoner said it was to pay some bills for his brother in Madras. 'Witness explained that the prisoner's brother was a merchant in Madras, and his business in London was conducted through Mr Dymes. Cross-examined--The prisoner stated he drew the cheque on his brother. He was accustomed to do so, with Mr Dymes's sanction, When the prisoner told him to fill up the cheque it did not occur to him anything was wrong. ThomasWi!eon, senior clerk in the service of Mr Dymes, said he cashed the cheque produced, and handed the money, £ICO in notes and the remainder in coin, to the prisoner, The prisoner was remanded upon this evidence, Mr Al derman Stone declining to ad.nit him to bail, Heartless Robbery from a Returned Gold Digger. (From the Liverpool Mercury.) About five years :ago, a Cornish miner, named Thomas Rowe, left his native country to try his fortune at the gold diggings at San Francisco, California, He appears to have been successful, for after working in the mines some time he saved about £l2O. A few months ago he left California to return to England via New York. He arrived in Liverpool on Friday, the 14th ult , by the City of Baltimore, accom panied by e man named William Thomas, who had left Cornwall with him, and Rho had been his companion at the diggings and during the voyage home. While on the pas sage from New York to Liverpool Rowe was taken ill, and when he was put en shore from the steamer he was so bad as to be scarcely able to speak. Notwithstanding his weak condition, it is stated that his companion Thomas left him to his fate, and proceeded on his journey to Cornwall. While on the landing-stage Rowe wee "picked up" by two crimps, who took him to a common lodginghouse, No. 6, Carlton street, kept by an old man named Thomas Elliot. He re mained there all night, but was removed on the following morning to the Brownlow-hill workhouse, where he died the same day. A short time after he expired his wife, who had heard of his arrival from America, came to Liverpool from Tywardreath, in Cornwall, where she had been living dui , - ing his absence. The poor woman, as may be imagined, was much affected on learning that her husband had died just before her arrival. She was told at the workhouse that her husband had left no (Mete. On Wednesdey morning, a communication was received at the Detective Office,?, from the superintendent of police at Tywardreath, which had been written under the direction of Sir Coleman Rashleigh, a magistrate for the county of Cornwall, stating that from evidence received it was believed that Rowe had been robbed in Liverpool of a belt which he wore round his waist, and which contained £l2O in gold, and some articles of jewelry The matter was placed in the hands of Detective Inspector Carlisle and Detective Smith, who, after making inquiries, apprehended the lodginghouse keeper Thomas Elliott and his wife Margaret on a charge of robbing Rowe of his money. When taken into custody £4 193 was found in possession of the man, and subsequently the officers found, on searching their house, £BO in gold concealed under the woodwork of the door. On making further inquiries they found two valu able gold rings and a gold nugget at the house of Elliott's grand• daughter, who resided in Regent-street. Elliott is 82 and his wife 78 years of age. They will be brought be fore Mr RA U‘s to-day (Friday), charged with stealing the money and jewelry from Rowe. It is stated that Themes Rowe's companion was apprehended at Tywardreath on suspicion of having committed the rebbery. THE LEEDS. BANKING COMPANY.—Mr Vice- Chancellor Kindersley has appointed Tuesday, the 15th inst., to settle the list of contributors of this banking com pany. As the full work of settling the whole list will pro bably occupy ripme days, the first call upon such contribu- tors can scarcely be made in the present month. It is expected to be made in the present year, and a first dividend to be paid early in the ensuing year. The list of contributors will be settled befoore the Vice-Chancellor at his chambers, 3, Stone's-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It is difficult to conceive an act of more cruel kindness than the attempt of the German Legal Protection Society to obtain the reprieve of Muller. It was for the very purpose of discouraging such €ffirts that Baron Martin, with true humanity, solemnly declared his own concurrence and that of the Chief Baron with the verdict of the jury, and earnestly warned the unhappy man to expect no mercy on this side the grave. So long as death is the doom of murder, anything which tends to un• settle the condemned criminal's mind in the interval between sentence and execution is in itself deplorable. It may be justified by a firm conviction that he is the innocent victim of the law—of that we speak not at present—but that it must needs distract his attention from those thoughts which ought to ens gross it, in prospect of eternity, eit,'.ll hardly be dis puted. Such is the inconsistency of human nature that men conscious of guilt, and on the ve:v eve of confession, will catch at mere straws of hope, and frame to themselves the flimsiest sophisms by Wb: cf self-exculpation. The infamous Palmer, hardened and desperate as he was, protested to the last that he did not poison Cook with strychnine, and seemed to hug the idea that he was unjustly convicted, because, forsooth, there was some reason to believe that he had also poisoned him with antimony. With such a state of conscience, repentance, in any sense moral or religious, is wholly incompatible. No man can throw himself unreservedly on the Divine com passion who is anxiously seeking loopholes to escape from the righteous penalty of human jastice. No thing, therefore, can warrant a petition to the Home Searettiry, otherwise so mischievous, except a well founded confidence in its merits and in its probable success. Can any such confidence be entertained by any rational being in the case of Muller ? Surely not, unless, indeed, new facts of grave importance have been brought to light since the trial. Even when an ex post facto discovery of this kind is alleged, we are bound to regard it with great suspicion. If adequate time has been allowed for the preparation of a prisoner's defence, and all the resources of advocacy have been exhausted in his behalf, it is a tremendous responsibiity to interfere with the verdict, even on new evidence. Were such inter• ferencts more frequent, it would soon become the practice to keep back testimony that might break down on cross-examination, and virtually to reserve a supplementary defence for the tribunal of the Home Secretary. Still, it is just possible, though highly improbable, that the key to a mystery may be found after the judicial inquiry is closed, and in these rare instances we must rejoice sentence is not absolutely irrevocable. Before, however,we consider whether this, or anything approaching to this, can be truly alleged in Muller's favour, it is right that we should once mare bring the cumulative proofs of his guilt within the compass of a single view. Per haps we shall best appreciate them by clearly cons ceiving what it is necessary to believe in order to establish the supposition of his innocence. We must believe, then, in the first place, if we trust Mr Walker,the hatmaker, that the real murderer wore one of the only two hats manufactured by him with a lining of a certain pattern, Muller being the un doubted owner of the other. We must believe next that, by the most unlucky accident in the world, Muller had also purchased a hat by the same maker as the one employed by Mr Briggs, a hat exactly corresponding in shape and size to that of the de caased, and of which Muller has never attempted to explain the acquisition. We must believe that some malignant chance led to this hat being cut down in just such a way as would account for the only dif ference between it and Mr Briggs', in just such a way as a tailor would have done the job, but not as a hatter or as an awkward hand would have done it, and in just such a way as would have obliterated Mr Briggs' name. We must believe that by another s€ ries of coincidences the watch and chain of Mr Briggs came innocently into Muller's possession, the latter so soon after the murder that he was found disposing of it on the Monday morning following the fatal Saturday night. All this we must believe, at the least—for we have omitted minor details—re- membcring, too, that the discovery of a hat like Mr Brigge' and of a watch known to be Mr Briggs' on Muller's person was not the source of suspicion against him, but, on the contrary, was the predicted sequel of previous disclosures with respect to the other hat and the chain. But a severer strain on our credulity remains to be applied. We must be lieve, with all these damning circumstances staring him in the face and marking him as the murderer, Muller was unable to produce a single piece of posi tive evidence worthy to be weighed in the opposite scale, to furnish any clue to the labyrinth of pre sumptions against him, or to clear up his own move meats about the time of the murder, except by the suicidal suggestion of a transparently hollow alibi. With this dead weight of probability against them the - indefatigable friends of Muller undertake to aj out a caao for respiting his execution. What are, or rather what can be, their grounds for repre senting this degree of moral certainty as "incon clusive P' We do not, of course, pretend to be in the secrets of the German Legal Protection Society, but, so far as we are aware, they are of the follow ing kind. Having obtained strong testimonies from various quarters to Mui:er'e character, they lay great stress on these to show that "he was net the s kind of man to commit so atrocious a deed. In to:mation is also said to have been procured tend ing to verify his description of the.man from whom, according to his own story, he bought the watch at the London Docks. In the centime, a person residing at Edmonton has come forward to state that, some hours after the murder was committed, a cub containing four persons drove past his house and threw a parcel against his window so as to break it. The parcel, on being opened, proved to contain a pair of trousers, and it is said that these trousers, on examination, were found stained with blood. In connection with this, a chemist living near the Victoria Park states that a young man, apparently drunk, and with a wound on the back of the head, came to his shop, with one or two com panions, about half-past 10-or 11 on the same night. We have thought it our duty to mention these particulars, valeant quantum, that our readers may form their own judgment upon them. It is equally our duty to express our own strong sense of their entire worthlessness for the purpose of shaking the verdict against Muller. Murders are seldom com mitted by the people whom one might expect to commit them. There is no class of professional homicides as there is of professional thieves ; and the blankest names in the "Newgate Calender'' are those of criminals who never were known to the police before they terrified the whole community by the one act which raised them to that bad eminence. As for the Victoria Park and Edmonton stories, if there is any truth in them, they only tend to sup port a faint conjecture that more persons than one may have been concerned in the murder. The eels dance of Muller's guilt remains where it was, and it will not surprise us if the researches of the German Legal Protec;ion Society should contribute, if pose sible, to strengthen it. It is certain that the alibi, confirming as it did, with a very slight variation, the theory of the prosecution, promoted the ends of justice rather than the acquittal of the prisoner. Let these well-meaning but ill-advised gentlemen rest content with that result. Their professed aim was to aid in proving Muller "either innocent or guilty." They have helped materially to prove him guilty, and by further meddling, if they have no better excuse than what we have already men tioned, they will only do him the worst service that can be done to a fellow-Christian during the last hours of his existence. POST.—The announcement that the Warrior has within the present week been taken into Portsmouth harbour previous to being paid off and dismantled will probably excite no little astonishment. It is true this step was resolved on by the Admiralty some time since ; but as comparatively few of the public are, as the Americans say, " posted" in naval matters, the intimation that the Warrior has ceased to be an effective vessel of war at the dis posal of the Government must occasion conside rable surprise. The ways of the Admiralty are so thoroughly inscrutable that we will not attempt to divine the reasons that have prompted it to order a ship to be dismantled which was generally supposed to be one of the most efficient in the service. The reasons are doubtless weighty, and we will assume that the course now taken is that most conducive to the interests of the public service. But the fact that a vessel built at an enormous cost, almost new, and which has never up to the present done any service which could not have been just as well performed by the oldest tub in her Majesty's dockyards, is on the point of being dismantled, is one which cannot fail to excite comment. It is necessary, we suppose, that certain alterations should be made either in respect to the build of the vessel, or her fittings, or her rigging, or perhaps all three, and for this pure pose she must be taken into dock and dismantled. But why those alterations should be necessary so soon after she was placed in commission, and why the public money should be, to all appearances, use lessly expended in the construction of ships which lire no sooner afloat than they must be redocked, and In many instances rebuilt, are questions which will occur to the minds of those who think that the money spent on the construction of the Warrior ought to have secured for the public a serviceable ship. To these questions the answers which must be given are, it must be confessed, not as satisfactory as could be wished. The science of shipbuilding for purpo!es of war must at all times be in a transi tionary state. Vessels are constructed to resist those means of attack with which thtir builders are fetni. liar; but when those means arc improved, the cons struction of ships must of necessity undergo modifi cation. It might he suggested that the se:.no train of reasoning would equally Gpply to the scicnce of shiplnsilding for com:r.erciAl purposes; but ,:ilLough imp that science is a.'so transitie‘ nary, the ship bu i lit ol l the transport of raferehandise.may be employou g oo she is worn out, I,7lailet the vt. 'see]. of war at once useless in the presence of more fe rmiu m rivals. Now, it has happened that, since tits; mination of the wars of the first French Et the art of building ships of War has unde r o c i i such frequent changes that the maritime v.: a l of the world have, though during a pert uninterrupted peace, been compellod to rebuilkt, navies several times. When steam' supersede!d! exclusive use of sails, and pa ddl es were coo l ; the beet, if not the only, means by whic h : 1 0 could be applied as a motive power, ever WV vessel turned out of a Government dockyL‘r" "ot paddle-box steamer. In time paddle-boXes 4°,1 place to screws, and again the fleets of Eur o p e 0 remodelled. Soon after it was discovered tne , l power of s!aips was by no means proportion% e i their size, and thereupon the ships-of - th e ' ll 'o which maritime nations took so great a pride, ~ for whose construction they paid no inconeidery, sums of money, were cut down and reduced t o y' s ;:igate size. Then came the age of armour -0 ,0 yes „-Is of war, The employment of iron and I l i as a Ins ?ans of protection to the hulls of ye, 0 occasioned the most serious and the most costilk ages in the science of shipbuilding W. le eeted in late years. Sa soon as It o . all ha v t e h the e,ft that a single armour-plated T. eoz44 earative impunity, destroy O i l came manifeel: could, im, nrovided with similar naset tire fleet of sh'ips eimbent on every marl. , defence, it became foe I nation desirous of malefie' ining its previous P on the seas to construct a sufficient number 0 new class of vessels to ectn ige ensate for the ass' inutility of their existing Afteo6- fed W er h atene ir the ligence of the exploits of the Oen: the Merrimac, in Hampton roach; reeiched this eu; it try, the limes stated that the navy .4 Greal on•S tain was virtually reduced to a single v essel, Warrior, the ship now about to be dismain.- „ of although this was the language of exeggeratie furnishes a tolerable index of the state of ri l l opinion on the respective merits of wooden e i iron-plated ships of war. The French Governfrigi even before the incomparable advantages of 0 0 0 0 clad frigates were thus conclusively demonstrs* had set about the construction of several of description of vessel, and we were, as a l e t i r matter of precaution, compelled to follow l e d example. At the close of the Parlian 3 e e ?; Session of 1861 ksupplemental vote of a V e t of a million was granted for this purpose ble{,' House of Commons without even the semblao4 opposition. The Warrior was the first of h ero ? and it is not to be wondered at that she WO: proved absolutely perfect. Since she was lattei we have improved upon our first model ; and 09 a perfectly new ship, it is considered that Bil e a d now be submitted to alterations which our 1 0 '0 experience teaches us are essential. This is tiled explanation which can be given for the order ffil has been issued by the Admiralty, and virhicod now on the point of being acted upon. We ere .0, to the art of building armour-plated vessel s ' 0 4 proficiency in it, as in all others,must be dearliorog chased. But costly experiments should be e i l d it: watched, and no department of tha State int': t in costlier ones than the Admiralty. The stne' r , Dually voted for the navy estimates are iron' yet, nevertheless, we always seem to be engskiti the reconstruction of our fleets. Vessels are bill'ty an enormous expense, sent to sea for a few inr o li then docked, then dismantled, and then Intituj again. If any particular case is isolated fro others, others, it may be easy to demonstrate that the e k taken by the Admiralty is uneXceptionableteo one is nevertheless induced to question wne tb „oo meny costly failures cannot be avoided. W 0 lag behind in the terrible race of competition rorti is forced upon us by other States, but it is of consideration whether we cannot afford to r i d occasionally before committing ourselves t° Pip cular schemes whose value has not been et a° tested. We cannot suppose that even 09 . 0 0 armour-plated vessel we have placed upon the:o 4 ; will never be surpassed, but before building e',l o o like her we ought to be tolerably well coe' a ft, that she and they will answer all the parpos' i ii/ which they are intended. We must pay bee c n - e cti, order to maintain that naval supremacy a° ",, f atij sary to cur national independence, but " We c o ot right to demand from those whom we In e ,l stewards that the money which we grant 0 lingly shall not be thrown away. COUNTRY MARKETS. - LIVERPOOL—F=2I.Y. We have hal rather a small attendance of ti lc d t it v our corn exchange this morning, and with a liin,it!;;4 o for wheat, the transactions have been at Tiles Flour in moderate demand at prices much the fr b akr late. Oats brought full prices, and oatmeal 3a , fet el A load more money. Barley, beans, and peas unti l d price. Indian corn neglected, but at fully previo ll " tations. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. • h We t Not a great quantity of wheat on offer, wino g 0 slow demand at recent eurrericics. In other Liu' ° " d oll trade was dull, and former prices slightly on th ° 3 6o o —White wheat, 42s to 445; red, 38s to 40s pct . s pat, Barley, malting, ;30s to 35s'; grinding, 29s to 3112,4. Oats, 18s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to qr.; new, 36s to 3ts. LINCOLN,—FRIDAY. argot There waz the usual show of wheat at our in o r r oi day, for which the demand ruled healthy, at to Barley a fair show, and best sorts fully meantaine Jo rates—seconds dull, and lower in price. . 0 8 s tei White wheat new, 40s to 44s Barley, grinding'. . ` ; ', 4o tl Red do. 3Bs to 40s Oats,' old, .. ...... 240 t 1 Old white 42s to 47s New do .......• 40 00 Red do. 39s to 43s i Beans.. ......... ;;/$ to Barley, malting 33s to 31s 1 Beans, new ...... 'l' BURTON• ON-TR Old white wheat..44s to 48s New do. ..40s to 45s Malting barley....32s to 34s Grinding d0.....28s to 30s OId!INT—THURSDAY. red wheat, to New do. • .31s Oats, ........... . Beans .......... 318 r W. The wheat trade A is KE slo F w, and there is lELD—FRIDAY no chime in vious values. Barley meets a steady sale—sccoa ufl lb cheaper. In other articles no change. Averages for the week : ,ild "Wheat 1623 qrs., at 4OO A ',V Oats 310 'A 8ar1ey......... 1813 Peas 3 9 3 Beans 34 COAL M Moos of Coal per Ton al s. d. Baddle'sWest Hartley 20 3 Cowpen Hartley 20 3 Hatton ........... Eden. Main ...21 6 Tunetall Haswell ... 16 ; sold, 16, LRKET. the olose of the rats . Walla Bade Ships at mark, Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. isTof Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... / 0P via Marseilles ... sof' Brazil and Cape Yerds, by B r iti s h pac k e t. ....... , To f Gapo of Good Hope, Ascension, an d St. Helona.•:* o 4. China, Penang, and Singapore, via S o utharopton• o p via Marseilles _ Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. 1;lof India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton • •,,, To Vo via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton ........... 1,4 0 f6 via Marseilles ..... so f. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ..... • 1 0 41, via Marseilles ........ ocal Newfoundland ......... • , Oporto and Vigo U. S. ar. , d British N. America, by Brit. packet.... by U.S. packet.. • 'l4O ll by Canadian packe t. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 0 California. and British Columbia.. / Births. 0 H GILLSON.—On the t a t inst , at Caldecote, Nuneaton'. enry Gdkon, of a n. . I GROGAN,—On the Ist s i o nst.. at Oak Villa, Aldero-'IOO4 wift) of Major C. E. Grogan, 14th Regiment , ° f ,; 3 40 , • P GOULD.—On the 3d inst., at 60, Chichester A r e b: - ØR burn , park, W., the wife of A. Gould, Beg , cu• ' Marriages. We lt, STONE—HEirs.—On the 3d inst., at Bishop' s A I William Henry Stone, late Fellow of Trin ity AI Cambridge, to Melicent, the second daughter of Helps, Esq., Clerk to H.M.'Rt Privy Council. et WOOL—MARTIN.—OA the 3d inst., at Wai n f l 4 a tc Mary, George Wool, E. q , Exmoor Gran Elle,; 0 1 Frances, daughter of David Martin, Esq. ) 0 1 ; Wainfkct. Deaths. 4/ DIXON.—On the 3d inst., at Clapham, Lictit. 1 Chas. Dixon, R.E. l .P l' FAIVCETT.—On the 3d i ns t,, 'Wm. Fawcett, .D s ' , ') Cdr Clarke House, Sheffield, aged 58. 141 HARE.--On the 3d inst., Robert Hare, Escl /OF- go lotte-street, Buckingharn•gate, aged 90. ,„ce, 4 , 7 , HOUGHTON.—On the 3d inst ,at 22, Lorraine-r,ed . 1 ,41 loway, Mr. Lucas Houghton, of 30, Poultry', %OP, LAY.—On the 3d inst., Mr, Daniel Lay, of Of 3 13/1 heath, Hackney, aged 63. W OOI MONTAGUE —On the 2d inst., at Southend , i i * " ilt oo l Esq., aged 81. , - ' Woums —Oa the 25 inst , at 28, Portland - Pl ace ' Mayer Worms, Esq., aged 34. ---------- A L 49,40. London: Primed and FrWisbed by WILLIA:a . `,: y ., A t 11 ui No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 1E SUN ° : e CO V • Strand, in the Precinct el die n Do' Novacr 6, 1861.